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If you wish to live wisely, ignore sayings--including this one. - Heywood Broun

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This jointly organized international symposium will bring together
teachers, nature protection bodies, educational systems and public movements,
scholars and specialists in order to exchange environmental education experiences
and information. This symposium will be held from September
6-11, 1999 in Barnual, Altai Region.

Jointly organized by The Computing Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences
in Akademgorodok, Novosibirsk and the State Electrotechnical University of
St. Petersburg, this 5th annual conference will be held from
September 6-10, 1999. The location is St. Petersburg and the official language of the event is English.

This international conference will take place in Würzburg, Germany from September 5-9, 1999 and will bring together scientists and engineers from all over the world that are in the fields of thermophysical properties of solids and fluids, components and systems.

Organized by High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), INSTR99 will be held in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan, from November 15-19, 1999. Seventh in a series of conferences, these events have been held since 1977 in Novosibirsk, Russia and SLAC. The purpose of this annual event is to report and discuss advances in instrumentation for collider experiments.

This conference will be held in Moscow, Russia from November 17-19, 1999.
The main focus of this event will be the examination of using the new computer
technologies in libraries. They also have a Russian site.

The International Union of History and Philosophy of Science/Division of
History of Science will present this conference July 8-14, 2001 in Mexico City.
The theme will be "Science and Cultural Diversity" with lectures presented in
English, French, German, Spanish and Russian. The first cirular will be in
September 1999.

The "next generation Internet" is coming and promises a much richer
communications media. F&P is working with the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) of the University of Illinois and
with colleagues at the Kurchatov Institute, Russian Institute for Public
Networking, the Joint Supercomputing Center and the Russian Academy of Science - to establish a high speed
(155M) Internet service between Russian and U.S. scientific communities. The
grant is funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation
and the Ministry for Science and Technology of the Russian Federation. Please read more
about the NaukaNet project at the NaukaNet WWW
site.